Entries by Corruption Watch

Govt drops ball on Covid-19 relief promises, says BJC

The Budget Justice Coalition has expressed its deep concern that the Covid-19 economic relief package is far less than the promised R500-billion. For instance, only R2.9-billion of net additional funding is provided to the entire health sector to cope with the pandemic, while only R6-billion of the R100-billion promised for job protection and small businesses has actually been allocated this financial year.

Economic crime in SA drops, but more execs guilty than before

Economic crime in South Africa is alive and well. According to PwC’s 2020 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, the percentage of economic crime incidents has decreased for the first time in 10 years – but the value of these incidents has doubled in the past two years, and the level of involvement of senior management has jumped by 14 percentage points since the 2018 survey.

ConCourt judgment: How does this change politics as we know it?

On 11 June the Constitutional Court handed down judgment in the case of New Nation Movement NPC and Others v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others. The ConCourt declared the Electoral Act to be unconstitutional to the extent that it requires adult citizens to be elected to the National Assembly and provincial legislatures only through membership of political parties. Parliament now has 24 months in which to amend the legislation accordingly.